3D N=1 supergravity from Virasoro TQFT: Gravitational partition function and Out-of-time-order correlator

This work uses super-Virasoro Topological Quantum Field Theory (TQFT) to compute partition functions for 3D N=1 supergravity. It establishes that the inner product of superconformal blocks is proportional to a Dirac delta function, and it derives the gravitational partition function from this TQFT framework. The results are used to calculate out-of-time-order correlators and semiclassical limits.

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